The year is almost done. Best wishes for 2026.

🈴 #UWaterloo students showed how AI can unlock human learning at the Google-UWaterloo Symposium 📈 🔗 Read more about the students' projects and the #Google & UWaterlo collaboration at: uwaterloo.ca/news/mathema...

Recent master’s graduate Yelizaveta Brus, former postdoc Rungroj Maipradit, and Profs Earl T. Barr and Shane McIntosh have won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ASE 2025. Their work examined a common and costly issue in modern software development. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/se-rese...

🏆 @uwaterloo.ca's Prof. Pascal Poupart and #CarletonUniversity's Prof. Sriram Ganapathi awarded Coefficient Giving grant to boost AI safety. ⚡With this funding, they aim to make agentic systems safer and more reliable — driving an AI-integrated future. 🔗 Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...

Congratulations to Prof Florian Kerschbaum on being named a 2026 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers! He has been recognized for his contributions to data security and privacy, influencing both academic research and industrial practice. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/florian...

✈️ Waterloo Blockchain flew to South America for #ETHGlobal Buenos Aires and came home with $25,850 USD 🏆 🔗 Read more about our students' hackathon win at cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo... #uwaterloo #laurier #blockchain

Muhammad Sulaiman, Mahdieh Ahmadi, Mohammad Salahuddin, Raouf Boutaba and Aladdin Saleh have won the 2025 CNOM Best Paper Award. Their research explores how to allocate resources to 5G network slices efficiently while guaranteeing quality of service. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/muhamma...

Craig S. Kaplan @isohedral.ca has been named a 2025 ACM Distinguished Member in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the design and modelling of computational geometric patterns and non-photorealistic rendering. Congrats on your 4th major accolade of 2025! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-s...

Aquanty Inc., a Waterloo-based water-modelling company co-founded by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Peter Forsyth, has been acquired by Rocscience. Founded in 2012, Aquanty grew out of years of collaborative research on surface and subsurface water modelling. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/aquanty...

CS Research Professor Maura R. Grossman featured on the Inference Show. She is a pioneer of technology-assisted review and Continuous Active Learning for eDiscovery, and more recently a prominent voice warning about the implications of deepfake evidence in courts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Syn...

Freda Shi and her UBC colleagues have won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2025. Their work introduces a new benchmark that evaluates how effectively large language models perform meta-linguistic reasoning — using LLMs to better understand languages themselves. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/freda-s...

Congratulations to CS Prof Ian Goldberg and his colleagues Aniket Kate and Greg Zaverucha on winning the 2025 Asiacrypt Test-of-Time Award. Their highly cited 2010 paper introduced constant-size polynomial commitment schemes central in the design of ZK proof systems. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ian-gol...

⚖️ Professors Maura R. Grossman, Yuntian Deng, and Wenhu Chen join CIFAR's Solution Networks to tackle AI safety in the legal system and linguistic inequality 🗣️ 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cs-prof... #uwaterloo

Al-generated evidence is increasingly appearing in court cases and judges say they are not ready. Research Professor Maura R. Grossman warns that generative Al has democratized fraud and courts must shift from "trust but verify" to "don't trust and verify." NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Cameron Seth is breaking down the world’s hardest CS problem piece by piece. “What I’m doing is looking at a series of smaller problems related to the broader P vs. NP problem. Essentially, what I’m asking is if we can solve these other related problems,” Cam says. uwaterloo.ca/news/mathema...

Congrats to Professors Meng Xu and Sihang Liu, recipients of a $254k grant from National Cybersecurity Consortium to strengthen security of LLM agents. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meng-xu...

The Cheriton School of Computer Science is recruiting! We invite applications for multiple positions in data management and data systems, as well as in other areas of CS — ML, robotics, computer vision, bioinformatics, and computer systems and architecture. cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/open-p...

Congrats to Waterloo Black, represented by Kevin Guo (4A CS), Kevin Yang (4A CS) and Kelly Dance (Master’s C&O). The trio finished second at the 2025 ICPC East Central North America contest. They will represent Waterloo at the ICPC North America Championship in 2026! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...

🦅 What if your gym routine consisted of gliding across a forest, skewing fruits like a ninja, or racing on a Formula 1 track? 🏁 🎮 That’s the vision behind Hiro. They're supporting children with disabilities by gamifying physiotherapy exercises. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/news/clinic-... #UWaterloo

Congrats to Prof Chengnian Sun and his collaborators Vu Le and Zhendong Su on winning the OOPSLA 2025 Most Influential Paper Award for their work on automated compiler testing. Their research introduced a new way to expose previously undetected bugs in compilers. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengni...

🎉 Congratulations to Datacurve, which was founded by former CS students Serena Ge and Charley Lee 🎉

Congrats to Postdoctoral Research Besat Kassaie, Dr. Andrew Kane and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Frank Tompa, winners of the Best Paper Award at DocEng’25. Their work combines LLMs for query reformulation with reciprocal rank fusion to improve mathematical IR. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/besat-k...

Congrats to CS Prof Edith Law, who has been named the Google Chair in the Future of Work and Learning. This Chair is situated within a broader initiative, the Future of Work Institute, in which she’ll lead research on how AI is transforming education & career readiness. uwaterloo.ca/news/media/g...

CS Prof Maura Grossman comments on a recent California case, thought to be one of the first to involve a genAI–fabricated recording submitted as evidence, highlighting the difficulty courts face in verifying authenticity of digital evidence. Free, subscription required: www.law.com/therecorder/...

PhD student Anudeep Das awarded $58.1k USD from Open Philanthropy to lead research on stealthy and resilient backdoors in LLMs. Working with Prach Chantasantitam & Gurjot Singh, he will uncover vulnerabilities in LLMs and develop strategies to improve their security. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/anudeep...

🤖 #UWaterloo researchers have discovered major privacy weaknesses in collaborative robots— calling for stronger defenses. 🏆 This study won the Best Research Paper Award at ARES 2025, one of the biggest conferences in #cybersecurity. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/news/robots-...

Shai Ben-David has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest national recognition for researchers. His work spans an impressive breadth, from ML theory and computational complexity to logic in computer science, mathematical logic and set theory. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/shai-be...

🎮 PhD student Yuzhe You is using video games to make AI more accessible to non-technical users. 🏆 She has received $145K from various scholarships to support her game-changing plan. 🔗 Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #womeninstem #UWaterloo #XAI

This is so great, and in part because it's so heartening to see that real scientific research is still alive elsewhere in the world! ⭐🧪

Enjoy the long weekend.

At the University of Waterloo, co-op is more than a stepping stone, it’s a launchpad for future leaders 🚀 Two Faculty of Math Co-op Student of the Year alumni shed light on their careers after graduation: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...

Dr. Don Cowan (MSc ’61, PhD ’65) and Ian McPhee (BMath ’73, MMath ’79) were among key Waterloo pioneers that transformed the computing world with the creation of WATCOM - Waterloo's first software spinoff. Today, the technology is still a game-changer. More: uwaterloo.ca/news/magazin...

University of Waterloo researchers have built a tool that can quickly remove watermarks identifying content as artificially generated — and they say it proves that global efforts to combat deepfakes are most likely on the wrong track. www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

Diogo Barradas has won the FOCI Rising Star Award for his contributions to censorship-resistant communications. Presented at the Free and Open Communications on the Internet conference, the award honours early-career researchers whose work advances Internet freedom. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/diogo-b...

🎮 PhD student Yue Lyu is creating AR-based games to equip children with autism spectrum disorder with social and emotional skills. ⭐ Her visionary plan could save $1.4 billion in educational expenses for Ontario. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #womeninstem #UWaterloo

🚀 From Co-op Student of the Year to Silicon Valley. 🧳 Henry Shi (BCS '14), the co-founder of travel app Super.com, discusses how #UWaterloo's co-op shaped his career journey. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...

Chengnian Sun and Hongyang Zhang have each received $60k USD through the Google Research Scholar Program. Professor Sun’s project will focus on enhancing compiler optimizations; Professor Zhang’s project aims to improve the speed and efficiency of reasoning in LLMs. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengni...

Aseem Baranwal has received the 2025 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award. His PhD thesis, Statistical Foundations for Learning on Graphs, explores the theoretical underpinnings of machine learning methods for graph-structured data. Congrats, Aseem! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/aseem-b...

A US federal judge has fined 2 lawyers $3k each for filing a court document with hallucinated cases generated by AI. Research Prof Maura R. Grossman warns that as gen AI becomes more common, so too do the risks. Her advice to lawyers? “Trust nothing — verify everything.” www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

Congratulations to my PhD student Matthew Regehr (@matt19234.bsky.social) on winning the University of Waterloo CPI Graduate Excellence Scholarship! This $10,000 prize recognizes his incredible achievements and potential in privacy research. @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/matthew...

Congratulations to Toshiya Hachisuka, Xi He, Florian Kerschbaum, Ondřej Lhoták, Shane McIntosh, Victoria Sakhnini and Jian Zhao, recipients of 2024 Outstanding Performance Awards. The recognition honours faculty who demonstrate exceptional teaching and scholarship. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cherito...

Professor Xiao Hu and her collaborators Binyang Dai and Ke Yi at HKUST have received a 2025 SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for their paper, Reservoir Sampling over Joins. This award marks the third recognition of her research excellence this year! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/xiao-hu...

Congrats to Liam Hebert, recipient of the 2025 Nick Cercone Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science. The $7,500 award recognizes doctoral students at a Canadian university who demonstrate exceptional, far-reaching research and a strong commitment to helping others. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/liam-he...

Professor Sepehr Assadi has won the 2025 Presburger Award, a prestigious honour recognizing his exceptional contributions to theoretical computer science, in particular his pioneering work on establishing lower bounds for multi-pass streaming algorithms. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/sepehr-...

Great news as we head into the long weekend ... Professor Craig S. Kaplan has been named a 2025 Fields Institute Fellow, an honour that recognizes his exceptional contributions to math, computational geometry and computer graphics, and their intersections with art. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-k...

Three Waterloo grads — Isabella Di Biasio, Veronika Sustrova and Katarina Makivic — teamed up to automate blood stem cell analysis using ML and a custom scripting language. Their tool, developed with Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, aims to speed up cancer research. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/biochem...

🎉 Five @vectorinstitute.ai scholarship winners are joining our School this year! ⭐ Using #AI, these students will work toward transforming human-computer interaction, information retrieval and natural language processing research. 🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meet-ch... #UWaterloo

📚Ever been stumped on a paper because you can’t find the right academic source? 📝A new AI tool can suggest citations and autocomplete sentences. Read more about ScholarCopilot at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #UWaterloo #AI #academicwriting

🥳 PhD student Yuzhe You has won the Michael A.J. Sweeney Award for Best Student Paper at Graphics Interface 2025. 🤖 She was recognized for VATRA, a visual analytics tool for adversarial training. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #cybersecurity #GI2025 #UWaterloo

🏆 Jiawen Stefanie Zhu (BCS ’24) has won the Best Poster award at #GI2025, Canada’s top conference on computer graphics and visualization, and HCI. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Her study reveals how technology can help displaced immigrant families bond. 🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci... #uwaterloo